hey you know it’s possible to include two spirits in the lgbt community who wish to be included while not including those who don’t want to be right?
and that no person in our community speaks for all of us? that not all of us hold the same view about being considered lgbt?
because i’m getting really tired of people continually telling everyone to not include us at all and encouraging people to remove the little amount of positivity that exists, and even telling us to stop including ourselves
include us who want to be included, dont include those that don’t want to be, and don’t say that none of us can be included because some people prefer not to be when no single person speaks for us all
basically, let us decide for ourselves
this is ok to rb
im just gonna add on bc i feel like a lot of ppl who arent native american misunderstand this bc they dont know what 2spirit like. MEANS. it was coined as a blanket term for pan-tribal usage (no this is not supporting pan-indigineity dw) since every tribe has their own gender identities & sexual orientations and etc.
for example, navajos have dilbaa and nadleehi, which are specific identities that fall under the umbrella of 2spirit (though i dont want to dismiss that recently there are people who will use a sort of non-denominational “2spirit” to refer to themselves the way someone might call themselves “queer”, for a whole variety of reasons).
so, because it’s already encompassing a ton of identities, you’ll get people who are like “oh im x y z gender but i dont consider myself lgbt because my identity already existed and was accepted pre-colonialism” or simply “i dont want to be referred to within the framework of a colonialist culture” or people who are like “yeah my identity existed pre-colonialism but now i suffer under the same sorts of discrimination so i consider myself lgbt” or “i’m mixed/raised off-rez and i feel a connection to both lgbt and 2spirit identities” and etc etc etc. every flavor under the sun! like i consider myself lgbt but NOT nonbinary since a binary never existed in my tribe in the first place, but some natives love the term nonbinary and consider themselves to be that, and that’s totally fine too.
like OP said it’s literally all up to the individual! because 2spirit isn’t an exact identity, it does no one any favors to leave us out entirely. (also disclaimer 2s is pretty complicated and there are some uses im leaving out for brevity lol)
